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[4] I'm Daily Wire editor -in -chief John Vickley with guest host Mary Margaret Olahan, senior reporter for the Daily Signal.
[5] It's Wednesday, May 1st, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[6] Overnight and into the morning, police broke up anti -Israel protests on campuses across the country, while some remain in place.
[7] Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham has the latest.
[8] UCLA, Yale, and the University of Arizona and Tucson were among several colleges that cleared out anti -Israel encampments on their campuses.
[9] At Columbia University, NYPD stormed an academic building that had been taken over by students and anti -Israel protesters.
[10] Over 300 people were arrested late last night between Columbia and the City College of New York.
[11] Police estimate that somewhere between 40 and 50 people were arrested at that building alone.
[12] Meanwhile, the New York City Mayor blamed the building takeover on outside agitators.
[13] We pointed out yesterday these external actors with a history of escalating situations and trying to create chaos, not to peacefully protest, but create chaos.
[14] Now, on the other side of the country, UCLA announced that classes are canceled today.
[15] The school said in a social media post that this is due to the, quote, distress caused by the violence that took place on Royce Quad late last night.
[16] Police had confronted protesters at UCLA last night after what officials described as hours of violence among those protesters.
[17] The Biden administration, is considering bringing Palestinian refugees to the U .S. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce reports.
[18] Internal federal documents show that senior officials have discussed the possibility of allowing people from Gaza to come here if they have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent U .S. residents.
[19] One proposal would use the U .S. refugee admissions program to bring in Palestinians who have already escaped into Egypt.
[20] Under these proposals, Palestinians would be flown here with refugee status and receive resettlement benefits, such as housing assistance.
[21] and a path to citizenship.
[22] Laura Reese, Director of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, says the administration's vetting process will almost certainly be taken advantage of by bad actors.
[23] The world knows well that they can easily get into the U .S. and they will exploit any avenue given to them.
[24] And so now the Biden administration is offering even more avenues to bring more people into the U .S., that we're not going to be able to adequately vet.
[25] Republican Marjorie Taylor Green is vowing to call for a vote next week to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.
[26] Green's move would force members of the Republican Conference to pick sides in a chamber where their majority is already slim.
[27] Here's Green.
[28] Once he became Speaker, he has become a man that none of us recognize.
[29] I can't wait to see Democrats go out and support a Republican Speaker and have to go home to their primaries and have to run for Congress again, having supported a Republican Speaker.
[30] Republican Speaker, a Christian conservative.
[31] Democrats have said that they would vote to keep Johnson in his current role.
[32] In a statement, Johnson said that Green's move is, quote, wrong for the Republican conference, wrong for the institution, and wrong for the country.
[33] Don't expect a rate cut anytime soon.
[34] The Federal Reserve has left its key interest rates unchanged at between five and a quarter and five and a half percent, the highest they've been in a decade.
[35] The central bank says it hasn't seen much progress.
[36] and moving towards its 2 % inflation goal, and this comes after last months higher than expected 3 .5 % inflation rate.
[37] Here's Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
[38] A restrictive stance of monetary policy has been putting downward pressure on economic activity and inflation, and the risks to achieving our employment and inflation goals have moved toward better balance over the past year.
[39] However, in recent months, inflation has shown a lack of further progress toward our 2 % objective, and we remain highly attentive to inflation risks.
[40] Harvey Weinstein returned to court today as prosecutors seek a September retrial in his 2020 rape conviction.
[41] The disgraced movie mogul was in a wheelchair with his hands cuffed.
[42] A New York appeals court overturned his conviction in a 4 -3 decision last week.
[43] The court found that the judge in the 2020 landmark Me Too trial was prejudiced toward Weinstein by allowing women to testify about allegations that weren't part of the case.
[44] United Methodists have moved to allow for LGBT clergy.
[45] Delegates from the church made the decision today in a 692 to 51 vote to remove the long -standing ban at their general conference.
[46] The rule change doesn't explicitly affirm LGBT clergy, but it no longer forbids them.
[47] And Martinelli's has recalled some apple juice after it was found to have higher levels of arsenic than FDA standards allow.
[48] The company sent a letter to alert retail partners carrying the affected products, which include 33 .8 ounce bottles with a best buy date of March 9th, 2026, or March 10th, 20206.
[49] All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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